Standing at the end of the Coles stage, waiting for mackerel to come in to the shore with Morley Coles and Aubrey Waterman. Mackerel do not usually come in but have been for the past two years, the first time this has occurred in eight to ten years.

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Morley Coles and Aubrey Waterman look at the floor boards inside Coles' stage. The floorboards are the original ones, which never rot as they are pickled by the salt. There is a lot of rust from the nails.

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Morley Coles gives a tour of the stage. A hole in the floor is for drawing water. There is a lot of splatter from fish guts from the splitting table, which was not painted because the paint would come off on the fish. At one time five people fished...

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Discussion of the changes the community of Deep Bay has seen. Morley Coles and Aubrey Waterman say that the current total population is approximately 100-130 people; when they were growing up it was close to 300, with households of eight to ten...

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Morley Coles and Aubrey Waterman talk about the resettlement in the 1960s of Offer Island and Nippard Island, both of which are in the entrance to Deep Bay. Aubrey's mother is from Offer Island, where there was a herring factory. Once both islands...

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Morley Coles points out his family home, floated over from Change Island in 1947, before Joey Smallwood's resettlement program. The stage was floated over from Blacky Cove which is around the bay from Deep Bay. A store was also brought, but it is...

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Looking out to sea, Aubrey Waterman thinks that squid are coming in, but Morley Coles says it is mackerel, which are coming in to shore feeding, which is uncommon. Some men in Joe Batt's Arm reportedly caught some mackerel the night before. Morley...

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Morley Coles, his father and brother built this stage, replacing an older structure. The date of construction, recorded on the wall, is 3 November 1988. The Coles stage is very large, as it is made up of two stages joined together. Aubrey Waterman...